Author: Kryptonews

With speculation growing around a possible 2026 crypto bull run, particularly if U.S. lawmakers finally introduce comprehensive crypto regulations, the period heading into Christmas is shaping up as the best time to load up on crypto if you believe in it.Bitcoin has stayed below the $90,000 level since Sunday, trading steadily above $87,000 over the past 24 hours.A key trend worth noting is Bitcoin’s steady decline in market dominance since summer. Historically, this shift often signals capital rotating from Bitcoin into altcoins. In this environment, projects such as XRP, Solana and Ethereum offer the best potential to grow value in…

The British Museum is sending some of its prized art and artifacts on long-term loan to countries that the British Empire previously colonized. While those nations have long called for the repatriation of objects they consider stolen, the institution may be hoping to blunt some of those criticisms by sending valuable historical items—though not always those that come from the recipients of the loans.  A Mumbai museum, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), is now host to a loan of some 80 artifacts, including an ancient wooden model of an Egyptian riverboat and devotional Sumerian statues from 2200 BCE, as…

Key Highlights Tron has announced its integration with Base, which will allow users access TRX directly within the Base App via decentralized exchanges on Base, such as Aerodrome. Recently, Tron has announced its partnership with Kalshi to allow users to deposit and withdraw using TRX, TRON’s native token, as well as USDT on the TRON blockchain network.  To expand its ecosystem, Tron is focusing on cross-chain interoperability  Tron has announced its integration with Base, an Ethereum-based layer solution, powered by Coinbase.  TRON announced the integration of TRON with @Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by @Coinbase. Enabled by @LayerZero_Core,…

Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and former FTX executives Gary Wang and Nishad Singh will be barred from assuming company leadership roles for eight to 10 years following a court judgment.In a Friday notice, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said that it had obtained final consent judgments against Ellison, Wang and Singh for their roles in the misuse of investor funds at FTX from 2019 to 2022. The former Alameda CEO consented to a 10-year officer-and-director bar, while Wang and Singh consented to eight-year officer-and-director bars each. All three are also subject to five-year ”conduct-based injunctions,” according to the…

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis, who has arguably been the closest friend to the crypto sector in Congress, won’t seek another term, she said in a statement on Friday.The first-term lawmaker will call it quits after her six-year term ends in January 2027, leaving a Republican seat open in extremely red Wyoming, but also removing a major ally for the digital assets industry. Lummis has been the inaugural chair of the first subcommittee dedicated to crypto matters at the U.S. Banking Committee, where she’s pushed crypto-friendly legislation as a top priority.Even now, she’s among the leading negotiators for the crypto market…

Rongchai Wang Dec 19, 2025 21:17 Stellar (XLM)’s blockchain ecosystem partners with RedSwan to tokenize $100 million in real estate assets, aiming to revolutionize investment opportunities in the sector. The Stellar (XLM) network, known for its open-source blockchain capabilities in payments and asset tokenization, is making significant strides in the real estate sector. Partnering with RedSwan Digital Real Estate, Stellar is set to tokenize a substantial $100 million in commercial real estate assets, as reported by Stellar. This initiative includes tokenizing institutional-grade multifamily and hospitality properties, providing new avenues for investment. By bringing…

Amid the recent bearish price action, the headline on Citigroup’s 12-month outlook for bitcoin BTC$87,936.44 of $143,000 — or about 62% upside from the current $88,000 — will raise some eyebrows.“We forecast increased adoption of digital assets, spurred by potential U.S. digital-asset legislation in the second quarter, with bitcoin likely ranging into the new year around $80,000-$90,000 user-activity values,” Citi analysts Alex Saunders, Dirk Willer and Vinh Vo said in their joint report.They said to keep an eye on the $70,000 level as key support, noting that was roughly bitcoin’s price just ahead of Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory.Their base…

The Blockchain Association, a non-profit crypto advocacy organization, wrote a letter to the US Senate Committee on Banking, signed by over 125 crypto industry groups and companies, opposing the ban on third-party service providers and platforms offering customer rewards to stablecoin holders.Expanding the prohibition on stablecoin issuers sharing yield directly with customers, outlined in the GENIUS stablecoin regulatory framework, to include third-party service providers stifles innovation and leads to “greater market concentration,” the letter said.The letter compared the rewards offered by crypto platforms to those offered by credit card companies, banks and other traditional payment providers. The letter opposes efforts…

In brief A new price model from analysts at CF Benchmarks suggests a Bitcoin base case of $1.4 million by 2035. The model gives a bear case of $637,000, and bull case of $2.95 million. BTC would need to jump more than 1,500% to hit the base case. A new Bitcoin price model suggests the base case for the leading cryptocurrency in 2035 is a price of $1.42 million per coin—a more than 1,500% surge from its recent trading price—or potentially more than twice that mark.The probability-weighted model from analysts Gabriel Selby and Mark Pilipczuk at Kraken-owned company CF Benchmarks…

Key points:Bitcoin is attempting a recovery from the $84,000 level, but the bears continue to sell on rallies.Several major altcoins are struggling to start a recovery, but Bitcoin Cash looks strong in the near term.Bitcoin (BTC) rose above $89,000 after the Bank of Japan (BoJ) hiked its rates to around 0.75% on Friday, but the bulls are struggling to hold onto the higher levels. Although a BoJ rate hike is generally considered negative for risk assets, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes told his X followers not to fight the BoJ as negative real rates was the explicit policy. Hayes projected the…